Texas Gardening: Fall Blooms, 1 by LindaTX8

LindaTX8 wrote:
I was trying to photograph a skipper butterfly on a Velvetleaf Mallow flower today. And this bee came up and just chased the butterfly away like it had a perfect right to do that! Here's a pic I took earlier in the month of a couple of bees on that same kind of plant. Must have real good nectar for bees because they're at it almost the whole day long! Around here I assume the bees were really hit hard because of the drought and extreme heat during the summer...like everything else was. I didn't see any for quite a while. Now they are back and probably very busy preparing for the winter.